Hacker News: nomdep

New comment by nomdep in "To have a moral stance on AI is to be an outcast, and it sucks"

nomdep — Sun, 31 May 2026 00:48:01 +0000

Like if any of those ideas had bring anything other than poverty, hunger, suffering, and millions of deaths.

We don’t get Star Trek post-scarcity by forcing everyone to do less, only by doing more. Creating more technology and creating (and consuming) more energy. Much more, near infinite amounts of it, that is what the replicator needs to create mass from energy.

New comment by nomdep in "A message from President Kornbluth about funding and the talent pipeline"

nomdep — Thu, 14 May 2026 16:49:21 +0000

I don't think MIT has money problems

New comment by nomdep in "I won a championship that doesn't exist"

nomdep — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 23:11:09 +0000

Yes, they can. We can be glad that respectable newspapers and TV news channels have never done it and never will. You can even trust than the headlines are accurate summaries of the content of the articles. /s

New comment by nomdep in "Palantir employees are starting to wonder if they're the bad guys"

nomdep — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 19:41:29 +0000

> We wanted to save the Iranian people from the regime that murdered 100,000 peaceful protestors (don't ask for evidence)

At least 20,000 according to Amnesty International, other independent sources claim 40,000.

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/campaigns/2026/01/what-hap...

New comment by nomdep in "5x5 Pixel font for tiny screens"

nomdep — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 16:55:21 +0000

This brings me back to the custom HP-48G applications with UIs made pixel-by-pixel. 3x5 letters where everywhere, but 3x4 and even 3x3 were used and were still legible:

- https://www.hpcalc.org/hp48/games/board/sshots/ship.png

- https://www.hpcalc.org/hp48/games/board/sshots/othellof.png

New comment by nomdep in "Show HN submissions tripled and now mostly share the same vibe-coded look"

nomdep — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 15:52:36 +0000

What this article calls AI design traits are design patterns that were already very common before AI: gradients, centered hero, stat banner, all-caps heading, purple accent, etc. You can blame most of them on TailwindUI and shadcn.

Are we going to call 'AI slop' everything that doesn't reinvent design from zero for a marketing page?

New comment by nomdep in "Google broke its promise to me – now ICE has my data"

nomdep — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 01:38:17 +0000

John Perry Barlow‘S EFF surely did, but are you sure you can trust Nicole Orze’s EFF to fight for your rights if one of your sympathies doesn’t align with current California’s sensibilities? https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicoleozer

New comment by nomdep in "Show HN: A WYSIWYG word processor in Python"

nomdep — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 00:21:30 +0000

I don't see why the "nested containers" model would prevent this feature to be replicated, it's just a tree of nodes. Not edit-this-as-plain-text-simple but almost.

New comment by nomdep in "ML promises to be profoundly weird"

nomdep — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 17:19:09 +0000

That changes it. I missed that the table of contents was for other future articles, my bad.

New comment by nomdep in "ML promises to be profoundly weird"

nomdep — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 16:47:15 +0000

"As LLMs etc. are deployed in new situations, and at new scale, there will be all kinds of changes in work, politics, art, sex, communication, and economics."

For an article five years in the making, this is what I expected it to be about. Instead, we got a ramble about how imperfect LLMs are right now.

New comment by nomdep in "Scientists are working on "everything vaccines""

nomdep — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 12:54:55 +0000

That’s how the zombie apocalypse starts in many novels

New comment by nomdep in "ISBN Visualization"

nomdep — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 14:12:41 +0000

Very weird.

Only in Spain there are 3k publishers. Argentina has 1k publishers.

And then we have huge amount of books published in spanish by Penguin Random House, Scholastic, Springer, etc.

New comment by nomdep in "Olympic Committee bars transgender athletes from women’s events"

nomdep — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 21:36:44 +0000

People with a diagnosis for that syndrome are specifically allowed by the new rules

New comment by nomdep in "Olympic Committee bars transgender athletes from women’s events"

nomdep — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 21:18:00 +0000

Indeed, that’s a barbaric custom, akin to genital mutilation, that should be reserved for a real medical necessity, never for religious reasons

New comment by nomdep in "VitruvianOS – Desktop Linux Inspired by the BeOS"

nomdep — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 00:12:31 +0000

Me too. The laptop was so old that I couldn't play a 360p mpg video without pauses on Windows 2K or XFCE, but it ran smoothly with BeOS5 (the Intel-based abandonware version)

Essex Police stops using facial recognition after it spots mostly black people

nomdep — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 18:00:19 +0000

Article URL: https://www.gbnews.com/news/essex-police-facial-recognition-tech-black-people-ethnicity

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47458260

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by nomdep in "5,200 holes carved into a Peruvian mountain left by an ancient economy"

nomdep — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 18:42:34 +0000

I think this comment is substantially more informative than the article itself:

https://newatlas.com/environment/5-200-holes-peruvian-mounta...

  Each hole is constructed- dug out and lined with rock.
  These are not mining holes, nor used to store things.
  If you want to store stuff, you would put these pits
  along the bottom of the hill, not running a long distance
  up the hill.
  
  They tried to keep the lines somewhat straight, crossing
  gullies. I can't guess what valid use they might have had,
  other than religious. They seem pointless.

New comment by nomdep in "Ireland shuts last coal plant, becomes 15th coal-free country in Europe (2025)"

nomdep — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 18:28:57 +0000

I saw the data. They have replaced coal plants with gas plants. Mostly imported gas. Why do Europeans hate the idea of safe nuclear plants though?

https://ember-energy.org/data/electricity-data-explorer/?cha...

I don't know if my job will still exist in ten years

nomdep — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 00:15:24 +0000

Article URL: https://www.seangoedecke.com/will-my-job-still-exist/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47292902

Points: 115

# Comments: 125

New comment by nomdep in "The stagnancy of publishing and the disappearance of the midlist"

nomdep — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 00:07:16 +0000

That was true until 10 or 15 years ago. They have been riddled with (accusations of) bias and fraud since then